Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage to their 25th reunion, when Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from the exclamations of surprise it causes. In spite of Hindu religious prejudices, Sam Higginbottom put sacred cows on a paying basis, encouraging farmers to put them on forage grass instead of feeding them from their meagre stocks...
...March 2, Stalin published an article called Dizziness from Success, called a. halt. But the waves of motion set up did not subside: 4,000,000 families moved back to their farms by May. In the Central Black Soil region-Russia's richest farmland-64% of collectivized families fled home two months after the drive ended. And although, the next year, 58% of peasant households were in collectives, livestock continued to be slaughtered until it was made a capital offense, until the 1933 livestock population was smaller than it had been in 1922, until 5% of collective farm income...
...must be remembered, however, that to many Cambridge citizens, Harvard seems a vast, sprawling Croesus, living on Cambridge soil, building its towers, providing palatial quarters for its students, causing hundreds of fires, hundreds of riots and disturbances, hundreds of traffic snarls each year. In return for this it pays nothing. Or, at best, a mere $72,000 a year. It is right that it pay more, reason those at Central Square. But this picture is fallacious. Any perusal of President Conant's letter will show such assertions deftly and straightforwardly answered...
Pragmatic economists have pointed out that Fascism is a reflex of the lean and bony ridges and sandy or sparse soil of Central Europe. Socialists insist that Fascism is not inevitable anywhere, and that a different system of property, political and consequent international relations would result in plenty for the German people even though their soil and raw materials are poor. But whatever the truth of the Socialist argument, it is axiomatic that a nation's total well-being under any economic system is limited by two things: the nature of the land and what is under the land...
Welfare & Warfare. Yet, though Reich chemists are working night and day, Germany is less able today to support a long war than she was in 1914. With Lorraine gone the iron ore supply is not enough. The available soil, even including the Bohemian and what could be seized in Poland, Hungary and Rumania, is not sufficient to produce both fodder crops for the cattle and breadstuffs, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, flax and hemp for the 152,300,000 population of a Middle European empire. Intensive grain cultivation operations are now being set up in East Prussia, but most...